========================================================================= INFO-ATARI16 Digest Thu, 28 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 868 Today's Topics: 520 ST upgrade to 2.5 Meg Blitz copy cable and utility internal FAX packages for ST? Monochrome monitor modification monogram ProGem USENET -> GEnie uplink now working ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Dec 89 21:04:35 GMT From: pacbell!pbhya!gdr@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Guy D. Ridley) Subject: 520 ST upgrade to 2.5 Meg Message-ID: <31728@pbhya.PacBell.COM> I am trying to get my 520 upgraded. I am not too familiar with the innards of my machine, and after talking with some dealers I am even more confused. 1) Can the ease of upgrading the memory be dependent on which version of TOS I am running, or are these entirely separate issues? 2) One dealer says it will take three weeks, another says it takes an hour (and his cost is better too.) However, after 6 weeks the chips are not in yet. Other dealers confirm that the chips are hard to get. There is no dealer in the S.F. Bay Area that can do the work *now*, mainly because the chips are not available. Is this normal? 3) One dealer said that in January there will be a board that will accept plug-in memory chips. Is this really true? Will it really be in January (1990)? 4) Where can I get the chips, assuming I will have to get them myself, and dealers don't have them? 5) What sorts of things can go wrong during this procedure, and how can I test it afterwards? (I assume by reading & writing to the highest memory location???) I am conversant in assembler if the answer to this requires such. Guy Ridley ------------------------------ Date: 28 Dec 89 17:43:27 GMT From: usc!samsung!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott@ucsd.edu (Scott Yelich) Subject: Blitz copy cable and utility Message-ID: > Or... you can E-Mail me, and I can tell you how to order this month's > ARC utility disk from MACE, the Michigan Atari Computer Enthusiasts, > which has both the original BLITZ documents including text and DEGAS pic > of the cable, and the BLITZ-II (Turbo-BLITZ) software... > Or... check your local user group... one last time... just to clear up some points. I have two versions up for anonymous FTP from xanth.cs.odu.edu. One version is a zip, the other is a compressed and tarred directory of the files AFTER they have been unzipped. I used a UNIX unzip since I didnt have unzip for the ST. Although I THOUGHT .zip files were self extracting archives. Nevertheless, there are two versions for FTP. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Dec 89 20:07 N From: Subject: internal FAX packages for ST? >I have a friend who is interested in finding out information about >boards, software and/or other solutions that will allow FAXes to >be sent or received directly from an Atari ST. The particular >computer she has is an Atari Mega ST 4 ... The Dutch company "DIVO Computer supplies" sels a complete FAX-pakkage for the A tari ST. The full GEM-Based software will let you send ASCII and First-Word(+) documents including all styles like bold, italic, underlined. You can load several fonts, so every-one should be able to make is own font if nececary. You can load all kind of pictures like Degas, Doodle and IMG's. As a special feature, you can send Pages made by the DTP-Program Calamus. Of cource you can use the Fax as a scanner and printer. The address of DIVO is: DIVO M. Gijzenburg 14 2907 HG Capelle a/d IJssel The Netherlands +31 10 Tel: +31 10 4587640 Fax: +31 10 4420037 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Bert Rozenberg, Sysop STer BBS, +31 1880 40035 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 89 02:48:46 GMT From: sundc!newstop!grapevine!panarthea.ebay.sun.com!koreth@seismo.css.gov (Steven Grimm) Subject: Monochrome monitor modification Message-ID: <35035@grapevine.uucp> I'm now the proud owner of an SM124 monitor (I can use Unix Windows!) and would like to tweak the monitor so the display fills up more of the screen. The one-inch margins are a bit ridiculous. I remember seeing instructions for that on the net before. Would someone please mail me the instructions? Hmm, uw+ka9q = NCSA Telnet clone for the ST? Yes, you too can run an anonymous ftp site on your Atari... --- " !" - Marcel Marceau Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.?sources,binaries?.atari.st koreth@ebay.sun.com ...!sun!ebay!koreth ------------------------------ Date: 28 Dec 89 16:53:23 GMT From: att!dptg!lzaz!hcj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (HC Johnson) Subject: monogram Message-ID: <900@lzaz.ATT.COM> In article <8912280806.AA17281@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, BALTUCH@BRANDEIS.BITNET (Jacob Baltuch) writes: > I'm posting this question for somebody who doesn't have access to the net. > > Has anybody heard about MONOGRAM. They had a program called "Dollars&Cents" > or something like that. My friend is happy with the program but doesn't seem > to be able to get his printer to work with it. When he tries to use the > printer the ST hangs or something. Anybody out there has ever used this I use D&S. it comes with GDOS 1.0, but is not compatible with it. Printing suddenly came to life when I get GDOS 1.1 with another program. So, either find GDOS 1.1, or try G+ (whatever), the gdos replacement. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com ------------------------------ Date: 28 Dec 89 17:49:31 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caesar.cs.montana.edu!ogicse! blake!ramsiri@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) Subject: ProGem Message-ID: <5173@blake.acs.washington.edu> In article <8912280803.AA16904@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> K331672@AEARN.BITNET (Gerfried Klein) writes: >Hello folks out in the world | >I would be very happy if someone could send me info about the >ProGem articles from Antic. How many of them have been brought out ? >Where can I get them from ? > I got the arc files progem.arc and prosrc.arc from terminator.cc.umich.edu [35.1.33.8] -kevin ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu ------------------------------ Date: 28 Dec 89 19:33:35 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!nic.MR.NET!ns!logajan@tut.cis.ohio-sta te.edu (John Logajan) Subject: USENET -> GEnie uplink now working Message-ID: <1989Dec28.193335.13308@ns.network.com> Robert Coleman writes: > is there no legal way I can stop GENIE from > copyrighting MY material if I post it on USENET? Steve Yelvington writes: >There is nothing we can do to prevent the profit-making Times from quoting >us. There is nothing we can do to prevent the Times from claiming a >copyright on the reporter's story. >However, there also is nothing the Times can do that could restrict us >from reusing our brilliant words Although I agree with this, my original posting on the subject was confined to the question of whether specific site distribution restrictions were enforceable. Here I would use an alternate analogy, that of a broadcast TV station that wishes to prohibit people on odd sides of the street from viewing their transmissions. Clearly such site restrictions are laughable and could never be enforced, practially or legally. Broadcasting over the airwaves or over USENET is, in principle, the same thing. If you want to narrow cast to preserve your right of distribution selection, you have to find means other than standard TV channels or USENET newsgroups. > Even a lawsuit without validity can be expensive. Agreed. Fortunately there are remedies to that also. -- - John M. Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - - logajan@ns.network.com, john@logajan.mn.org, Phn 612-424-4888, Fax 424-2853 - ------------------------------ End of INFO-ATARI16 Digest V89 Issue #868 *****************************************